Texas A&M Football: 3 early signees who’ll have instant impacts in 2021

Kellen Mond has had quite the career at Texas A&M, pushing record numbers that Johnny Manziel set. No one truly gives him the praise he deserves after such an impressive four-year career because he never became a Heisman contender under Jimbo Fisher.

Still, replacing Mond won’t be an easy task.

Will Jimbo turn to former three-star Zach Calzada or four-star freshman Haynes King, a top-150 prospect from Longview, Texas? The head coach will have a tough decision to make but an incoming freshman and top-150 prospect in 2021 named Eli Stowers will make the race for QB1 even more intriguing. And tougher to judge.

Stowers has the size at 6-foot-4 and 215 pounds and 247Sports lists him as the fifth-best dual-threat quarterback in the class as well as the No. 103 overall prospect.

What makes Stowers even more intriguing is the fact that he’s not just an early signee, but also an early enrollee. He will be on campus in January and that’s going to help him learn the playbook faster and prepare as if he was already the starter.

Gabe Brooks of 247Sports compares Stowers to Cincinnati’s Desmond Ridder and that’s worked out pretty well for the Bearcats, but his ceiling is even higher.

I see this kid excelling under Fisher.